OTHER WAYS TO GIVE

Hugo Slim

International Committee of the Red Cross

Dr Hugo Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford, and has advised several companies on human rights and conflict resolution including Rio Tinto, G4S, and BP.

The purpose of this article is to give an overview of current understandings of the various roles of business actors in armed conflict. It traces the expanding discussion of business and conflict in today’s civil wars, and the discussion’s importance to humanitarian, human rights, corporate and peacebuilding policymakers.

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